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Skybus touts its jets as “the most modern, fuel-efficient?? planes available today,” but the inescapable laws of physics and chemistry make air travel an incredibly energy-intense means of travel. According to data published in the New York Times, a Boeing 747 crossing the Atlantic emits nearly 2,800 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) for each person on board, and USA Today reports that you would have to drive an SUV for a month to emit as much CO2 as a jetliner emits per person on a New York to Denver...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman | Title: Low Cost, Low Conscience | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...gasoline, it will be better for the environment and better for you,” Butler said.No one at the meeting rose in defense of the blowers. But the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, an Alexandria, Va.-based trade association, says that blowers present an “extremely efficient?? way to save time and labor.PARKING AND PARKSThe city manager also reported to the council on policies designed to decrease Cambridge’s gasoline consumption.“To foster better fuel efficiency by residents, businesses, and institutions, the City will assess ‘feebates?...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Citizens Want Blowers Banished | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...admitted students. The University opened the $4 million health center—snow called University Health Services—on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets in the fall of 1961, putting Harvard’s health services among the eight “most advanced and efficient?? of all American universities, Dana L. Farnsworth, former Director of University Health Services, told The Crimson. The largest single construction effort the University had undertaken to date was also built during this period. The 20-story William James Hall opened in 1963 as home to the departments...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Jumpstarts Building Boom | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...spurious assumption that any ACS activity not directly devoted to research is wasteful. The author neglects to mention that ACS received the Better Business Bureau’s “Wise Giving Seal” for the efficiency of its activities. Even if ACS could be more efficient??and we are always striving to make it so—the claims of corruption and fraudulence are completely unsupported and fraudulent themselves...

Author: By Natasia A. Desilva, Joseph M. Hanzich, and David S. Rosenthal | Title: Donations To Cancer Society Support Worthy Efforts | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

Chu’s run through the tournament, held in College Station, Tex., had been efficient??a total of six sets in his first three matches—until today, when he and Witten stretched their match to three long, grueling, back-and-forth sets...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chu Advances to Final Four in Singles, Doubles | 5/27/2005 | See Source »

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